Biography Niccolo Caracciolo

Niccolo d'Ardia Caracciolo was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1941, the
only son of Ferdinando Caracciolo, Prince of Cursi. His mother
was a Fitzgerald of The Island, near Waterford [now Waterford Castle],
where he was reared. The medieval castle was the seat of
his mother's family, the Fitzgeralds, who first came to Ireland in the
Norman invasion of 1160. The Italian title came from his father
who belonged to a very old Neapolitan family whose title, Principe di
Cursi, can be traced back to 1165 and that of Duca di Grottaglie to
1660.

Niccolo was educated in England at the Oratory School,
Reading, from where he went to Florence to study art after Pietro
Annigoni had seen a sample of his work in London a
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